After Cancún Climate Governance or Climate Conflicts /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Altvater, Elmar (Editor), Brunnengräber, Achim (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2011.
• Subjects: Political science.; Climate change.; Political Science and International Relations.; Political Science.; Climate Change Management and Policy.

The world is facing several serious challenges at the close of the fossil and nuclear energy regime: the limited resources of cheap conventional oil can only be surmounted by tapping unconventional oil reserves, e.g. deep sea oil. The explosion of the oil platform Deepwater Horizon in 2010 and the s...